NetTuesday
Title: Net Tuesday
Location: MadLab
Description: Free monthly gatherings for social changemakers and web innovators to network, socialise and share ideas about how nonprofits and social benefit organisations can use the social web for social change.
Date: 26-06-2012
Start Time: 18:30
End Time: 20:30
OUR SPEAKERS
David Govier and Kate Sutton from Archives+ will talk about how archives can get involved in online engagement work including sharing images and encouraging user generated contect via Flickr and Twitter. They will showcase joint projects between Archives+ and the department of Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University of Manchester such as historical treasure hunts and hosting Twitter radio shows which help bring archives to life for new audiences.
Lynette Cawthra from the Working Class Movement Library will join us to discuss how they have used social media to engage, including a recent Twitter re-enactment of the Battle of Bexley Square.
Leslie Holmes will also be on hand to discuss how Salford Lads’ Club are utilising their rich history and archives via the web – including Facebook Timelines, Youtube channels and, of course,pictures of Smiths fans in Storify!
COME TO THIS EVENT IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN:
Using social media in non-profits
Working with archives
Using archives to engage new audiences
The Smiths!
Tags: Net Tuesday
[...] At tonight’s event, Lynette Cawthra from the Working Class Movement Library talked about their use of social media. Most interesting was the Twitter re-enactment of the Battle of Bexley Square (2) and recent work to commemorate the Kinder Trespass of 1932. She got the biggest laugh of the night by wryly observing that the best reaction she’s got to a tweet was one about… eccles cakes; there seems to be an inverse relationship between seriousness and popularity. She mentioned a site called “social oomph” that allows you to preload your tweets, scheduling them for best effect.(3) [...]